Wow. Thank you so much for saying all of that. It means a lot to me. Truly.

But yeah, authenticity. It's tricky. I want to bring that to the table, but then do I really because it's such a vulnerable thing? I mean if I wrote how I speak, then my posts would have more redundancy, word echoes, adverbs and sloppiness in general because I edit the way I talk into the way I wish I spoke. I mean if we ever spoke in person about any of the subjects I've written about, my content/opinion would be the same, but how I express myself would be different than how I wrote it. So I'm curious how it would go to let the way I speak lead my writing instead of editing myself into some voice that's "better". Meh, yeah, long story full of sighs haha. Nothing new. But anyway, thank you.

Also, I didn't know anyone noticed I had been doing my best last year to write consistently haha, so thanks for that acknowledgment too.

And Courage Writer is going to be great. I'm looking forward to it and everything it entails.